Search - Sam Lanin :: Turn on the Heat: Hot Dance Band Sides 1925-1931

At last!

B. Watkins | 07/31/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Few CD retrospectives offer material that so completely captures the mood of a time period. This is such a CD. Rivermont records has put together the definitive collection of one of the most recorded, but alas, most overlooked orchestras from the 1920's: Sam Lanin. Perhaps due to the wide variety of aliases this man chose to record under.



I can scarcely remember a contemporary radio program or review of the 1920's that even mentions this seminal orchestra leader. Yet, should we manage to resurrect personalities from that time period, an objective musical historian would presume anyone alive during the '20's could quickly point to the Sam Lanin organization as a "first mention" name in dance bands.



I highly recommend this CD."